7 miles -- second maffetone test

I did my second maffetone test today at the tenth-mile track. The weather was kind of odd as a cold front moved through while I was doing the test. It was very sticky when I walked out the door but was much better later as a cold front moved in. I found a local weather station on wunderground.com that gives updates every 5 minutes. It was 68.9F/65.2F dew pt/88% humidity at the start and 63.9F/55.4F/74% at the end. Last time it was a pretty constant 57/54.


Here are the results, compared with the first test.

	May 13	June 3
temp	57F	~67F
warmup	21:04/131	22:49/131
Mile 1.	9:18/145	9:59/144
Mile 2.	9:32/146	10:02/144
Mile 3.	9:35/145	9:57/145
Mile 4.	9:45/145	9:59/145
Mile 5.	9:52/146	10:05/145

I'm electing to believe the drop off in pace was weather-related. I did do better at sustaining my pace this time, which I'll take as a positive sign.

I jogged another quarter mile and estimate my total at 7.4 miles. The foot pod worked throughout although I've used it uncalibrated for a number of weeks now. It called each mile 0.94 miles. It doesn't really matter when I'm running known routes.